On Wednesday, May 9th 2001, there was held at the
National Press Club in Washington a press conference with a difference. This
was no fund-raiser, corporate initiative, or publicity-seeking media celebrity.
Presenting to the assembled journalists was a group of over twenty military,
intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses — some individuals
clearly summoning considerable personal courage to surmount their nervousness
— stepping forward to describe their own personal experience of the reality
of UFOs, extraterrestrial life forms, and advanced energy and propulsion technologies
now in the possession of secret groups operating within the US.

To many, such a claim appears unreal and deluded. But is it? Visitors to this
site may by now be alerted to the possibility that all that is presented to
us by the media, the government, and well-meaning schoolteachers may not necessarily
be entirely as it seems. If the US government is capable of obfuscating the
truth behind the Iraq War, 9/11, TWA 800, the Waco Massacre,
and the Oklahoma City Bombing — and the list goes on, and on, and on — it may be appropriate
also to suspend disbelief for a short while when we are assured that UFOs do
not exist; that alien abductions are so much hysterical delusion; and that the
very notion of secret contact having been made between extra-terrestrial intelligences
and top-secret quasi-governmental groups is ludicrous.

So, before dismissing the notion out of hand, let's take a look.

The whole range of this huge subject is beyond the scope of a short article;
and perhaps even beyond the scope of a lengthy book. Many good researchers
have struggled mightily to come to grips with the breadth and intricacy of the
phenomenon. Many conspiracy researchers, unafraid to enter into the hall of
mirrors that surrounds the JFK assassination, steer clear of UFOs. But here
are the bones of the issue, and the current state of play, in what may be by
far and away the most labyrinthine, ultra-top-secret, dangerous and far-reaching
game in town.

The May 2001 press conference mentioned above is a not a bad place
to start: The hero of the hour is Dr Steven Greer, a medical
doctor possessed with a drive few can match to reveal the truth of what he has
been researching since 1993. There are many researchers in this field, but Greer's
approach is different: rather than sit quietly and write interesting books which
usually preach to the converted, he has assembled several hundred witnesses
to what may be the crimes of the millennium ... and is marching them all straight
to Capitol Hill.

The idea is safety in numbers. An embarrassing individual
can be intimidated into silence — or simply silenced, if they won't
silence themselves — but dealing with an intelligent, respectful and articulate
group which has walked straight into the public domain is harder to deal with.
Behind the scenes, Greer reports, Congressmen are starting to listen.

Greer states that he has recorded evidence from
over 400 high calibre witnesses — most of them scientists, military men,
or intelligence officials — who are sufficiently disturbed by their own
consciences to have chosen to come forward with their testimony. The twenty
who appeared before the journalists and cameras in May 2001 were the brave vanguard
of the larger group, the majority of whom will only reveal their identities
on guarantee of Congressional immunity from prosecution.

The best source of summary information of this collective
testimony — and it's a fat summary, running to 570 pages —
is the book Disclosure,
compiled by Greer himself. Every citizen in the land should read it.

The book and the Executive Summary each contain hundreds
of extracts from taped interviews with people such as these:

Dan Morris is
a retired Air Force career Master Sergeant who was involved in the extraterrestrial
projects for many years. After leaving the Air Force, he was recruited into
the super-secret National Reconnaissance Organization, or NRO, during which
time he worked specifically on extraterrestrial-connected operations. He had
a cosmic top-secret clearance (38 levels above top secret) which, he states,
no U.S. president, to his knowledge, has ever held. In his testimony he talks
of assassinations committed by the NSA; he tells how our military deliberately
caused the 1947 ET craft crashes near Roswell, and captured one of the ETs,
which they kept at Los Alamos for 3 years until he died. He talks about the
intelligence teams that were charged with intimidating, discrediting, and
even eliminating witnesses to ET/UFO events. He talks about Germany's
re-engineering of UFOs, even prior to WWII. He talks about our current energy
crisis — and the fact that we haven't needed fossil fuels since
the 1940s, when free energy technologies were developed — but have been
kept from humanity. This is the real reason for the secrecy of the ET/UFO
subject: "What the people in power right now don't want us to know
is that this free energy is available to everybody."

Don Phillips
was in the Air Force at Las Vegas Air Force Base during an event when UFOs
were seen moving at enormous speeds near Mt. Charleston, northwest of Las
Vegas. In addition, he worked with Kelly Johnson at the Lockheed Skunk Works
on design and construction of the U-2 and the SR-71 Blackbird. He testifies
that we not only have these extraterrestrial devices, but have also achieved
tremendous technological advances from their study. He states that in the
1950s and 1960s, NATO did research into the origin of ET races, and disseminated
reports to the leaders of various countries. Mr. Phillips further states that
there are records and filmed documentation of meetings in California in 1954
between ETs and leaders of the USA. He lists a few of the technologies we
were able to develop because of the back-engineering of ET technology: computer
chips, lasers, fibre-optics, and night vision.

Captain
Bill Uhouse: US Marine Corps (ret.), October 2000

Bill Uhouse
served 10 years in the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot, and four years with
the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB as a civilian doing flight-testing of
exotic experimental aircraft. Later, for the next 30 years, he worked for
defense contractors as an engineer of antigravity propulsion systems: on flight
simulators for exotic aircraft — and on actual flying discs. He testifies
that that the first disc they tested was the re-engineered ET craft that crashed
in Kingman, Arizona in 1958. He further testifies that the ETs presented a
craft to the US government; this craft was taken to Area 51, which was just
being constructed at the time, and the four ETs that accompanied the craft
were taken to Los Alamos. Mr. Uhouse's specialty was the flight deck
and the instruments on the flight deck — he understood the gravitational
field and what it took to get people trained to experience antigravity. He
actually met several times with an ET that helped the physicists and engineers
with the engineering of the craft.

Lieutenant
Colonel John Williams: US Air Force (ret.), September 2000

Colonel Williams
entered the Air Force in 1964 and became a rescue helicopter pilot in Vietnam.
He has an electrical engineering degree and was in charge of all the construction
projects for the Military Air Command. During his time in the military he
knew that there was a facility inside of Norton Air Force Base in California
that no one was to know about. He heard that there was a UFO craft stored
there and that people such as certain Senators including Bob Dole had visited
the facility. Colonel Williams also relates another story that his father
told him: one time, attending a dinner party, he had a conversation with a
high-level RAND official who told him that the government was spending more
money on antigravity devices than any other project in the history of this
country.

A.H.:
Boeing Aerospace, December 2000

A.H. has gained
significant information from inside the UFO extraterrestrial groups within
our government, military, and civilian companies. He has friends at the NSA,
CIA, NASA, JPL, ONI, NRO, Area 51, the Air Force, Northrop, Boeing, and others.
He used to work at Boeing as a surface technician. He was introduced to four-star
General Curtis Lemay, and one day went to his house in Newport Beach, CA and
spoke with him about this subject. Lemay confirmed the ETV (extraterrestrial
vehicle) crash at Roswell. A.H.'s NSA contact told him that Henry Kissinger,
George Bush Snr, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were all aware of the
ET subject. His CIA contact told him that the USAF had shot down some of these
spacecraft. A friend of A.H. who worked at Boeing was part of crash recovery
and personally saw and carried ET bodies. A.H. says that a group in the FBI
discovered that radar testing was causing interference with some of the ETVs
and that this was what was causing so many crashes. He also states that there
are underground bases testing and maintaining extraterrestrial technology
in Utah (reachable only by air), Enzo in California, Lancaster/ Palmdale in
California, Edwards AFB in California, March AFB, Eglan AFB in Florida, and
many other locations.

The above is just a tiny sample. Read even with a
sceptic's eyes, the claims are impressive and credible, and, if they are
to be believed, of unparalleled significance. And the transcripts of the interviews
make compelling reading:

Brigadier
General Steven Lovekin: Army National Guard Reserve, October 2000

"One older
officer discussed with me what possibly could happen if there was a revelation.
He was talking about being erased and I said, ‘Man, what do you mean,
erased?' And, he said, ‘Yes, you will be erased — disappear.'
And I said, ‘How do you know all this?' And he said, ‘I
know. Those threats have been made and carried out. Those threats started
way back in 1947. The Army Air Force was given absolute control over how to
handle this. This being the biggest security situation that this country has
ever dealt with and there have been some erasures…'"

Professor
Robert Jacobs: Lt. US Air Force, November 2000

"Now, I
saw that! I don't give a Goddamn what anybody else says about it. I
saw that on film! I was there! Now when the lights came on, Major Mansmann
turned around looked at me and said, ‘Were you guys screwing around
up there?' And I said, ‘No, sir.' And he said, ‘What
was that?' And I said, ‘It looks to me like we got a UFO.'
Now the thing that we saw, this object that flew in, was circular, was shaped
like two saucers cupped together with a ping-pong ball on top. The beam of
light came out of the ping-pong ball. That's what I saw on film.

"Now Major
Mansmann said to me after some discussion about it, ‘You are never to
speak of this again. As far as you are concerned, this never happened.'
And he said, ‘I don't need to emphasize the dire consequences
of a security breach, do I?' I said, ‘No, sir.' And he said,
‘Fine. This never happened.' As I started for the door, he said,
‘Wait a minute.' He said, ‘Years from now if you are ever
forced by someone to talk about this, you are to tell them it was laser strikes,
laser tracking strikes…'

"It's
not a secondhand story. This happened to me. And I was a part of a United
States Air Force cover-up for 18 years."

Greer is compassionate in his perspective. He does
not blame or recriminate. He understands, and is quick to explain, that after
the crash of an unknown extraterrestrial vehicle near Roswell, New Mexico, in
1947, the military suddenly found they had a huge problem: how could they admit
to a nervous post-war public, suddenly been thrust into a new Cold War with
a new and frightening enemy, that the military had no control over domestic
airspace; that they did not know who built or flew the alien craft; and that
if the craft's builders had hostile intentions, they were quite unable
to do anything about it?

Rather than come clean and risk panic — let
alone risk the earthquake which could topple the edifice of Christianity and
every other planetary religion — they opted for secrecy, which after the
years of the development of the atom bomb was a familiar refuge. Greer understands
that the problem the military then cannoned into was that — as many of
us have experienced in our lives on one level or another, and who dares throw
the first stone? — the deception, once begun, rapidly became impossible
to reverse. If Greer's hundreds of witnesses are to be believed, in the
years following 1947 the crashed discs (for there were several in the following
few years) were dismantled and analysed component by component. Startling new
technology was understood, centuries if not millennia ahead of its time, which
in turn became a secret which could not be allowed into the public domain for
fear that a unique opportunity for final last-ditch advantage over the Russians
would be forfeited. And as the ETs themselves allegedly started to communicate
with the American military — sources disagree about whether or not this
was under duress — the secrets became so deep that they could not be told.
Or, at best, it was another generation's problem.

So Greer's mission is not fuelled by resentment
or outrage at the secrecy of the government, nor by the desire for retribution
if US citizens have been killed to protect the great secret. Rather, he is concerned
for our environment. As Dan Morris testifies above,
the US has in its possession energy sources which are both non-polluting and
cheap to the point of being cost-free once constructed and operational. Such
knowledge, given to the world, would end many of humanity's problems at
a stroke. Greer is again compassionate in his understanding of one of the US's
motives for not sharing this with the world: that in the hands of the larger
emerging technological nations — India and China, for instance —
the US would in effect forfeit its superpower status within a small handful
of years. Greer persuades his readers that this is a terrible dilemma for the
US: either they give up their energy-based global supremacy, or the world goes
to hell in a handbasket with all on board her and no-one spared.

It is the opinion of this writer that Greer, although
his work deserves the greatest admiration and support, may not have a high enough
confront on some of the realities of the situation behind the scenes. Hundreds
of thousands of words have been written attempting to understand why Bush and
the neo-conservative cabal will not sign the Kyoto treaty. How could he be so
blind? So stupid? So short-term in his thinking?

Well: much has been made of Bush's intelligence,
vision and thinking; but, to borrow an irresistible phrase, it's dangerous
to misunderestimate someone who may be an adversary of the entire human race.
Bush et al. may know exactly what they are doing. Many commentators have drawn
attention to evidence — the kind of evidence we see on the nightly news
— suggesting that the US would really quite like to run the planet. Much
has been made of this elsewhere, including in the mainstream media, the latter
particularly in Europe. It may be that the final piece of this jigsaw puzzle
comes into view when we consider the possibility that the Kyoto treaty deliberately
remains unsigned in order to maximise the problem we all face. Knowing full
well that planetary oil reserves will run dry in our own lifetimes (and this
is nowhere better presented than in The
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, by Thom Hartmann), the scenario may well
be to let the wells run dry; let there be power shortages, epidemics, starvation,
and riots on the street; and then roll out the free energy generators that they
have had secreted away all this time ... with the US as the saviour, and also
in total control of the big bail-out.

This also explains the anguishing personal testimonies
shared by Free Energy researcher Wade Frazier and a host of others. He and many
others conclude — and not totally incorrectly — that free energy
discoveries (and some inventors) have been brutally extinguished by vested interests
in the status quo of Big Oil. That may be true. But it's entirely possible
that such discoveries, if they were truly to be introduced to the public domain,
would kill off the world-domination plan. After all, there can't be an
energy-based monopoly — and associated totalitarian regime — if
the very commodity that maintains control (and energy is everything: food, water,
travel, manufactured goods) is available alternatively.

To return to Greer, this is why he has an uphill
struggle. He's not just trying to get a secret revealed; he's unwittingly
trying to spoil maybe the largest scale plan for world domination that the world
has ever seen. Do we need to take a look at this? We may ignore this at our
very peril. 9/11 and Iraq may be sideshows compared with what is yet to
unfold.

Since this article was published Bill Ryan has co-founded (with Kerry Cassidy)
Project Camelot (website at http://projectcamelot.org)
whose "purpose is to provide a vehicle for researchersand whistleblowers to get their stories out."

A copy of the Serendipity website is available on CD-ROM. Details here.